Oddly enough, while the .com bust in 2000-2001 was really bad (was a period of about a year where hardly anyone was hiring in tech in my region), 2008 wasn't bad at all. While it was obviously much worse for the broader economy, it was really not bad at all in tech, and as the area where I lived never experienced a giant housing bubble it wasn't as hurt by the housing downtown as other places in the US.
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Oddly enough, while the .com bust in 2000-2001 was really bad (was a period of about a year where hardly anyone was hiring in tech in my region), 2008 wasn't bad at all. While it was obviously much worse for the broader economy, it was really not bad at all in tech, and as the area where I lived never experienced a giant housing bubble it wasn't as hurt by the housing downtown as other places in the US.